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<P><I>The City and the Wilderness</I> recounts the journeys and microhistories of Indo-Persian travelers across the Indian Ocean and their encounters with the Burmese Kingdom and its littoral at the turn of the nineteenth century. As Mughal sovereignty waned under British colonial rule, Indo-Persian travelers and intermediaries linked to the East India Company explored and surveyed the Burmese Empire, inscribing it as a forest landscape and Buddhist kingdom at the crossroads of South and Southeast Asia. Based on colonial Persian travel books and narratives in which Indo-Persian knowledge and perceptions of the wondrous edges of the Indian Ocean merged with Orientalist pursuits, <I>The City and the Wilderness</I> uncovers fading histories of inter-Asian crossings and exchanges at the ends of the Mughal world.</P>

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Author

Arash Khazeni

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520289680

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Asian History